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When the Republic was proclaimed in Paris in 1848, Schoelcher drafted the emancipation decree that freed 87,500 slaves in Guadeloupe and 72,000 in Martinique.
Perhaps 2,000 years ago, Indians sometimes called “Saloides” from the Orinoco basin in South America began migrating up the Antilles chain, reaching Martinique and Guadeloupe before a.d. 200.
Ironically, the British occupation gave Guadeloupe’s economy a big boost: between 20,000 and 30,000 more slaves were transported in and new cane-grinding windmills built, all of which spurred the sugar trade to unprecedented prosperity.
This he called Guadeloupe after a monastery in Spain.
Guadeloupe and Martinique became full départements of France in 1946 — a source of great pride to many.